People in Bangladesh wearing masks provided as part of a Yale study. Photo: IPA-Bangladesh.
Masks can save lives in areas with little access to vaccines. A program with origins in Yale SOM research gets them to sometimes isolated rural areas and encourages their use. It has reached 100 million people in Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia with a boost from Hanesbrands Inc. and critical support from local governments.
By Karen Guzman
A research-based initiative launched by Yale SOM faculty to promote the use of face masks in the developing world is gaining ground, thanks to burgeoning relationships with governmental officials and non-government implementers in the targeted nations, and boosted by a donation of 80 million masks from Hanesbrand, Inc.
Creating a lasting legacy of collaboration across South Asia - Newspaper dawn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dawn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
17 June 2021 14:30–15:45
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Professor Wantchekon examines the mechanisms of state capture in low income countries and discusses how these mechanisms contribute to the breakdown of democratic institutions. Leonard Wantchekon is a Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the President and Founder of the African School of Economics. His research interests include political economy, economic history and development economics. A scholar with diverse interests, he has made substantive and methodological contributions to the literature on clientelism and state capture, resource curse and democratisation.
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Deepening Democracy: The Role of Associational Politics | Institute of Development Studies ids.ac.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ids.ac.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
27 May 2021 7:00–8:15
Speaker: Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College)
Moderators: Rabea Malik (Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives) and Miguel Loureiro (IDS)
Date: 20th May 2021
Time: 7 AM UK
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Professor Andrabi analyzes the impact of the 2005 Earthquake in Pakistan on the recovery of student learning outcomes. He examines the implications these findings for the risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to student learning outcomes. Tahir Andrabi is Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He is a founding Director of the Centre for Economic Research, Pakistan and the inaugural Dean of the LUMS School of Education His research interests include the economics of education and development economics. He has published extensively in major economics and education journals including the American Economic Review and Review of Economics an